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2021-ben is sort kerítettünk egy kora őszi, nyárbúcsúztató piknikre...
The summer of 2021 was one never-ending scorching heat wave. At least, that’s how I remember it. The wardrobe boxes labelled „spring” remained unopened this year. After March, April and May that were annoyingly windy and cold we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of a dry and merciless, hot summer. Now, at long last, here we are in unpredictable, rhapsodic September...
September is here. Why don’t we spend our next coffee or tea break reading the English translations of some well-known Hungarian poems on autumn? Just for fun, or out of literary curiosity...
When you hear about women's right to vote you would think that equal voting rights have been around for 200 years at least. In a civilised world it would be obvious. August 26th is Women's Equality Day in the USA, so we dived into this topic...
We are a week away from the end of August. We wanted to make a collection of sayings, proverbs and quotations about summer for you...
Mennyire ismered a tanárt, akivel a Fast English nyelvi kurzusain hetente több órát együtt töltesz, és aki ezt az időt értékes tartalommal tölti meg számodra? Te mit tudsz arról az emberről, akinek a nehezen elsajátíthatónak érzett új nyelven próbálsz magadról, a családodról, a munkádról, az éppen aktuális projektjeidről minél pontosabban, választékosabban, nyelvtanilag egyeztetve mesélni?||||Ki ül veled szemben?||||Valószínűleg keveset tudsz róla, hiszen az órákon inkább Te beszélsz, kedves olvasó.||||Az elkövetkező hetekben egy-egy kollégánkat mutatjuk be. Ismerjétek meg őket, ily módon is új témával színesítve a társalgási időt.

For the conscious reader – part II

You arrive home from a week-long holiday, you open your suitcase and the cover of a book stares at you. The cover of a never-opened book that you picked specifically for the holiday that has just ended. I’m sure I’m not the only one who remembers a few book covers like that.

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Accents

Have you ever faced the challenge of understanding the local accent in an English-speaking country? However good your English is, and even if you are a teacher of English with years of experience, it can be a humbling experience when you get into a taxi in Glasgow and the driver initiates a casual chat with you.

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Seasonal dictionary

It’s the first day of summer 2024. According to the calendar, it’s time to put your imaginary spring dictionary back on the shelf. If you are ready to dust off your summer English dictionary, we have an updated summer vocabulary list for you.

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An oasis of resources

What you can see hovering over our blog post image are the most common suffixes: -tion, -ity, -er, -ness, -ism, -ment, -ant, -ship, -age, -ery We would like to recommend an oasis of resources for language learners and language teachers. It’s a great tool for language learners whose objective is to get to know some more suffixes, or word endings, in addition to the ones they are already familiar with.

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For the conscious reader

In less than 20 days it’s summer. For conscious language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link.

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